According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, Boston Celtics teammates Marcus Smart and Jaylen Brown were involved in a heated argument following the team's Game 2 loss to the Miami Heat. The two needed to be separated by teammates, multiple sources told The Athletic.

Sources told The Athletic that Smart stormed into the Celtics postgame locker room saying that other players needed to be held accountable and not simply point the finger toward him when things are going wrong. As Smart continued and his voice grew louder, sources said Brown snapped back and shouted that Celtics players must stay together and that their actions must come as a team, not individually, and that Smart needed to cool off. Those sources added Smart had verbal exchanges with a couple of the assistant coaches during the game.

Smart and Brown had a tense interaction inside the locker room, with objects thrown around. Teammates diffused the situation before any physical altercation could take place, sources told The Athletic.

Smart and Brown have smoothed tensions over since the verbal spat, and one source said the Celtics would learn from it and move on from the episode Friday ahead of a pivotal Game 3 on Saturday.

Source: Shams Charania of The Athletic

Original Report: Marcus Smart is screaming in the #Celtics locker room and there is a bunch of arguing going on. Smart comes out say “y’all on that bullshit!” Team is imploding. Smart is in bathroom and there is still screaming coming from locker room.

Source: Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe (Twitter)

ANALYSIS: After giving up another fourth quarter lead to the Miami Heat in Game 2, the Celtics locker room reportedly got very hostile as players shouted and threw items at each other. The Heat switched to a zone defense in the second half and the Celtics struggled to adjust. Boston now faces an 0-2 deficit in the ECF while Miami improves to 10-1 in the 2020 postseason.

We expect updates on this situation going forward and it will be interesting to see how the Celtics respond on Saturday for Game 3.